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JOIN THE SOLUTION Visit your Congressperson and explain the current threat to Black colleges and raise funds to charter buses. Pass out Black College Day literature at all football games, conventions and public gatherings. If you have special skills (legal, organizing, typing, etc.), let Project ’80 know and spread the word. Write—as alumnus or student—to the president of your college and the head of your music department urging them to send their marching band and queen to compete for the national titles. Ask the local press and the college papers to run stories on the band and queen from your area, college or former college, who will compete for the national titles. Ask the Black Press to run the Black College Day announcement, giving details of the march as a filler and to run regular stories on events related to the rally. Recruit students for Black colleges to meet Black College Day’s quota of a one percent increase in enrollment for these schools each year. Buy and sell the official Black College Day ’80 T-shirt as a fundraiser (see back cover). Seek participation of local churches, ^1^3^ community organizations, sororities and W M fraternities. Organize Black College Day chapters on each college campus, in each city and in each alumni chapter. Get your mayor and governor to issue a Black College Day proclamation. For those on white campuses, this is your struggle also—help. Pray. The march and rally program also opens and closes with prayer. march and rally ELLIPSE 9:00 AM ASSEMBLE AT THE ELLIPSE (ON “E” STREET NEXT TO THE WHITE HOGSE) 9:30-12:00 PM A OPENING PRAYER B. SHORT SPEECHES WHITE HOUSE m co —i 3 m m ON THE CRISIS FACING BLACK COLLEGES it/ C. FINALS IN THE MARCHING W/ BAND ^// 3U OWE YOUR CHILDREN A BLACK COLLEGE! COMPETITION AND QUEEN CONTEST 5 $ U.S. CAPITOL 12:00-2:00 PM MARCH (VIA “E” STREET/ PENNSYLVANIA AVE.) TO WEST FRONT OF U.S. CAPITOL BUILDING. 2:00-4:00 PM A. SPEECHES BY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES OR SURROGATES B. SPEECH BY TONY BROWN C. CLOSING PRAYER BLACK COLLEGE DAY MON., SBT. 29th, 1980 MARCH AND RALLY WASHINGTON, D.C. MISS BLACK COLLEGE DAY BLACK COLLEGE DAY BANDS THE PROJECT ’80 COALITION FOR BLACK COLLEGES 1501 BROADWAY, SUITE 2014, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10036 800-223-2760 This ad is donated as a public service by this publication. Buses To Washington Contact Yolanda Thompson SGA President Clark College